PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Autobiographical Memory, Episodic Memory, Amygdala
4 Aug 2017
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But autobiographical kind of combines episodic and semantic. When they tested 2 year olds on stuff that happened to them when they were 1, they could remember it. Childhood memories: certain memories survive childhood amnesia. Usually highly emotional, like breaking an arm and going to the emergency room. Traditionally children not accepted as eye witnesses because people thought that they could not tell the difference between fantasy fact. Memories throughout lifetime: there is a social component to memory. Ex. parents help kids remember stories from their childhood: looked at how recall faired when two people recalled together (but generally the two people were strangers) But did worse than when on their own so assumed the social aspect of memory was inhibitory: then more recently looked at how memory fairs between long term partners. Found that their way of communicating actually supports one another memory.
